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NAME¶Catalyst::Authentication::Store::Null - Null authentication store
use Catalyst qw( Authentication ); __PACKAGE__->config( 'Plugin::Authentication' => { default_realm => 'remote', realms => { remote => { credential => { class => 'TypeKey', key_url => 'http://example.com/regkeys.txt', }, store => { class => 'Null', } } } });
DESCRIPTION¶The Null store is a transparent store where any supplied user data is accepted. This is mainly useful for remotely authenticating credentials (e.g. TypeKey, OpenID) which may not be tied to any local storage. It also helps facilitate integration with the Session plugin.
new( )¶Creates a new instance of the store.
for_session( )¶Returns the user object passed to the method.
from_session( )¶Returns the user object passed to the method.
find_user( )¶Since this store isn't tied to any real set of users, this method just returns the user info bless as a Catalyst::Authentication::User::Hash object.
user_supports( )¶Delegates to Catalyst::Authentication::User::Hash.
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From Christmas to Bean Day, Americans love their holidays. So celebrate the well-known and the unusual holidays together when Hope Summer Repertory Theatre (HSRT) opens "Happy Holidaze!" on a holiday weekend, July 1 at 8:30 p.m. at the historic Park Theatre near downtown Holland.
HSRT Musical Director Fred Tessler has created another fun romp through songs you love, and will come to love, with "Happy Holidaze!" You will celebrate a whole year of holidays, from New Year's Eve to Christmas, in one fast-paced evening.
Sure, most people have never heard of "National Blame Someone Else Day," but it is a holiday and HSRT is ready to celebrate. Like your holidays a little more traditional? Valentines, Thanksgiving, and other more common holidays make the cabaret as well.
Plus, Alpine Rose restaurant is catering the event so patrons have the option of purchasing food and beverages while enjoying the show.
In addition to Tessler's work as creator/director, the show also features the choreography of Barbara Brandt and the vocal and acting talents of Lisa Warmus, David Earl White, Jason Miller, Kevin Milnes, and Giorgia Cifani.
After the July 1 opening, "Happy Holidaze" will show at 8:30 p.m. on July 2, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, August 2, 4, and 6.
While at the ticket office, be sure to reserve tickets for the other great HSRT mainstage shows, including the family show, "Seussical the Musical," the Alan Ayckbourn comedy, "Bedroom Farce" the musical "Spitfire Grill, and a modern interpretation of Moliere's "Scapin." HSRT's "second stage" show is the comedy-drama, "Drawer Boy," while the Children's Performance Troupe is presenting Jon Scieszka's "The True Stories of the Three Pigs and The Frog Prince (cont'd)" and Dennis Foon's "The Short Tree and the Bird Who Could Not Sing.
Tickets for the cabaret are $22 . The ticket office is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. On performance dates, the ticket office will be open through intermission. The ticket office is located in DeWittCulturalCenter at 12th Street and Columbia Avenue. For tickets or information call the ticket office at 616-395-7890 or visit the HSRT website at www.hope.edu/hsrt.

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I thought textures were supposed to consume video memory, not system memory, but am finding that every texture I allocate its consuming system memory.
Using Windows Mobile, HTC Diamond device - dynamically attaching to it's libgles_cm.dll. I think it's ES 1.1. Device has 16bit display.
The remote heap viewer tool shows an allocation of w x h x 16bit (plus a few bytes extra probably for header etc) for each texture I use in my app. It is not the original bitmap - I free that from memory immediately after calling glTexImage2D and I've watched the heap as that happens to make sure it's not hanging around.
So it must be opengl that is allocating the memory.
My code uses:
- glGenTextures to create a handle
- glBindTexture to address it
- glTexParameteri to ensure mipmaps are not enabled (didn't make a difference though and I think they are disabled by default anyhow)
- glTexImage2D to set the pixel data (once off - doesn't happen every frame)
I was really wanting to design the app so that textures were offloaded to video memory and kept the process memory usage to a minimum. There must be a way to do this surely. The only thing I can find is in the full opengl there is the ability to suggest textures need to reside in video or system memory, but this is not part of ES.
Can anyone provide a suggestion on how to do this? Even if opengl needs to keep a copy of all textures in system memory - that's fine - but is it possible to get it to store it outside the app's process?


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Official Announcement: BTO Sports to KTM
Miami, FL - Team BTO Sports is pleased to announce its partnership with KTM Motorsports for the 2013 US Supercross and 2013 US Motocross racing season. Team BTO will be celebrating their 10th year on the US SX and MX tour, and the timing of their first factory backed OEM effort with KTM Motorsports couldn't be more exciting. "We are very excited and proud of our new relationship with KTM. They are now the defending 450 MX champions, and to be a new addition to their team on the new 450 is an honor honestly. Being a factory backed team with an OEM has been a goal of the team since it's inception, and to achieve that with KTM and a manager like Roger DeCoster is incredible. Now we will put the pressure on us to do our job and perform", says BTO team owner Forrest Butler.
The KTM partnership with Team BTO, will be driven through the teams long time motorcycle dealership, Palmetto Motorsports. Palmetto will continue as a major team sponsor, and the driving force of KTM sales for the team. "We are very excited to have KTM come on board with the race team for 2013. Palmetto is a long time KTM dealer and supporter, and we have created a very unique sales program with all the team race bikes throughout each season. With these two combined, I for see our 2013 team bike sale program being the best its ever been with the new KTM 450 SX-F. It is going to be a very exciting year for the team, and we are proud to be a part of it", says Palmetto Motorsports Todd Sandoval.
Team BTO Sports / KTM will field two full time 450 riders in the 2013 US Supercross and US Motocross racing series. Team riders will be long time veteran Michael Byrne, #26 and 2012 Canadian National Champion Matt Goerke, #62. Both riders will be racing 2013 KTM 450 SX-F model motorcycles and are very excited to be working with the new program and KTM Factory Services. "Working with KTM on this level is a huge step for our team", says BTO team owner Vince Arimitsu. "Our riders love the bike already, and we will be on the best equipment out there. To combine all this with our 10 year anniversary, is just a great thing for everyone involved with our team".
Thank you to our list of 2013 season team sponsors:
BTOSports.com , KTM.com , Palmettomotorsports.com , Witt's End Racing
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Demand. More than 70 percent of the world's purchasing power is located outside of the United States. Your competitors are increasing their global market share, and you can too.
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The Economic Impact of Exporting
U.S. exports of goods and services totaled $2.2 trillion in 2012. Exports are a growing and substantial part of the U.S. economy, accounting for 13.9 percent of our nation's GDP.
In 2012, 9.8 million U.S. jobs were supported by U.S. manufactured exports.
According to a study published by the Institute for International Economics, U.S. companies that export not only grow faster, but are nearly 8.5 percent less likely to go out of business than non-exporting companies.
Minority-Owned Companies Have Vast Export Potential
Minority businesses have a competitive advantage in global trade based on their cultural ties, language skills and nimbleness. The 2007 Survey of Business Owners reveals that among firms with export sales representing 20 percent or more of their overall receipts, minority-owned businesses are twice as likely to export compared to non-minority firms.
In addition, minority firms are more than three times as likely to have businesses generating 100 percent of all their sales in exports compared to non-minority respondent firms. This finding is quite substantial because it can support the Administration's goal of doubling the nation's exportsby the end of 2014. Minority businesses can play an important role in meeting that goal through exports.
The Minority Business Development Agency is committed to working with U.S. companies to help American-made goods and services succeed in the global market.
Additional Resources
» U.S. Recognizes Another Year of Export Growth
» International Trade Administration Releases New Trade Finance Guide, 3rd Edition
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Richard Hopkins is a Welshman interested in genealogy. He was appalled by the condition of the former Babell Chapel cemetery in Cwmbwrla where five generations of his family were buried. Even worse, he learned that the cemetery was up for auction. He realized that real estate developers might purchase the cemetery and "repurpose" it for other uses, such as a housing development or a shopping mall. The "problem" of the cemetery being up for auction turned out to be the solution: Richard Hopkins purchased the cemetery.
Mr Hopkins said it would be a "long-term project" to clean up the cemetery and to restore it to the condition it once was. He continued:
"It's my intention to take on repairs for the graves of my ancestors, and if anyone wants to repair their own ancestors' graves I won't stand in their way.
"We are also looking at the ecological benefits with wildlife coming into the site, and I hope to have an almost urban meadow so people can enjoy it from an educational standpoint.
"It is a long project but it will look in much better shape."
You can read much more in an article in the Express web site at: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/919760/Graveyard-Babell-Chapel-cemetery-Richard-Hopkins.


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Lansky and his compatriots Bugsy Siegel, Frank Costello, and Joe Adonis, were nutured by Arnold Rothstein during Prohibition: "The Reinfeld Syndicate -named after the Newark, New Jersey bootlegger and accused murderer Joseph Reinfeld -functioned as the middleman between the British liquor distilleries and the "Rum Rows" of Boston and New York. Its controlling shareholders were the four Bronfman brothers, Allan, Sam, Edgar, and Charles. The U.S. leg was handled by Reinfeld and Abner "Longie" Zwillman, later the boss of Atlantic City, and Rothstein's gangs in New York…Under the auspices of Lansky and Torrio, Lucky Luciano succeeded in wiping out all recalcitrant godfathers…A special assassination bureau was set up by Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugs" Siegel. The "Bugs and Meyer Gang" had been distinguished by the fact that they owed allegiance to no one (except maybe Arnold Rothstein); they had originally been used to protect Bronfman liquor shipments across the border against 'freelance' hijackers." …"Arnold Rothstein, Yasha Katzenberg's employer, was a product of the Rothschild 'dry goods' empire that included the Seligman, Wannamaker, and Gimbel families. During Prohibition, according to the Bronfman's own testimony, Rothstein, Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano were the Bronfman's main distributors…" [ref. pp274-275 and 278, Dope Inc.]
"After World War II, Mr. Sam [Bronfman] established the National Conference of Israeli and Jewish Rehabilitation, using his considerable smuggling skills to run guns to the Haganah." [p281, Dope Inc] http://lyndonlarouche.org/dope9.pdf
A point of interest about the Bronfman's smuggling operations with Al Capone takes place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, the "little Chicago" of Prohibition. The most well known health lobbyist of all time, Florence Mahoney, got her start in Moose Jaw. Mahoney teamed up with Mary Lasker of the American Cancer Society to become the most formidable duo in D.C. health politics. Mary Lasker, in turn, was the wife of Albert D. Lasker who was introduced to her husband-to-be by Lewis Strauss and friends, Bill (Wild Bill) Donovan of the OSS and Max Epstein. Here's a link about Moose Jaw, Mr. Sam and Al Capone http://www.lonepinepublishing.com/cat/1-894864-11-5/gallery/excerpt


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John A. Gaskins (1854-1926)
John A. Gaskins, a son of Harmon Gaskins and Melissa Jones and grandson of Fisher Gaskins, was born September 8, 1854 in Old Lowndes, now Berrien County, GA.
In 1905, when John A. Gaskins was a gentleman of 50 years, the Tifton Gazette noted as a human interest item that he had been thrown by his mule. He was treated by Dr. Pleasant H. Askew of Nashville, GA.
Tifton Gazette
April 28, 1905
A mule threw John A. Gaskins Tuesday afternoon and broke his collar bone on the right side. He was out feeding hogs in the woods when his mule became frightened and threw him to the ground. Dr. Askew dressed his wounds and he is getting on as well as could be expected. -Herald.
The item was newsworthy in part because the Gaskins were prominent Wiregrass land owners and cattlemen. They were one of the early pioneer families of Berrien County. The patriarch, Fisher Gaskins, and his sons Harmon, William and John, had originally settled on the west side of the Alapaha River, near present day Bannockburn, GA., about 16 miles distance from today's Ray City, GA location. Harmon Gaskins, and his brothers William and John, were among Captain Levi J. Knight's Company of men who fought in the Indian Wars of 1836.
Just a year before John A. Gaskins' mule bolted, in 1904, the papers noted that he had closed a big timber deal. The transaction was for 3,400 acres of timber to be cut at a sawmill on the Ocilla, Pinebloom & Valdosta railroad.
Tifton Gazette
February 19, 1904
Gaskin Sells Timber.
Nashville, GA. Feb. 12. – Messrs. Barfield and Brewer, of Unadilla, Ga. have closed a deal with John A. Gaskin, by which they come in posession of 3,400 acres of timbered lands, buying the timber only. The price paid was $34,000.
The purchasers will erect a splendid mill two miles out on the O.P. & V. railroad at an early date.
About John A. Gaskins
John A. Gaskins grew up at his father's homestead near Five Mile Creek, about six or seven miles northeast of present day Ray City, GA.. John's mother died when he was about 10 years old, and his father remarried to Mary McCutchen Jones, widow of Matthew Jones.
In 1877, John A. Gaskins married Mary Elizabeth Bostick. She was born 1859, a daughter of Sarah Ann Knight and Jesse S. Bostick . When Mary was about three years old in 1862 her father enlisted in the Clinch Volunteers, which mustered in as Company G, Georgia 50th Infantry Regiment. His Regiment was involved in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Civil War at the Battle of South Mountain and at the Battle of Cedar Creek. He was taken prisoner and spent the rest of the war in the POW camp at Point Lookout, along with fellow POWs John T. Ray, Benjamin Harmon Crum, Benjamin T. Cook and Aaron Mattox. Just a year after Mary's father marched off to the Civil War, her mother died of measles. When the War ended and her father returned home, he married Mrs. Nancy Corbitt Lastinger. She was the widow of James G. Lastinger, who served in the 29th Georgia Regiment (with the Berrien County Minute Men) and died in a Union hospital in 1864. Thus, Mary Elizabeth Bostick was raised by her step-mother Nancy Corbitt Bostick.
Children of John A. Gaskin and Mary Elizabeth Bostick are:
- William M Gaskins – born April 3, 1878; died August 26, 1905
- Lucious Butler Gaskins – born January 17, 1880 in Berrien, GA; married Lessie L. Parrish, February 21, 1904; died April 13, 1934
- Reason Batie Gaskins – born May 23, 1882 in Berrien County, Georgia; married Blanche P. Giddens; died December 24, 1912
- Jesse Swinson Gaskins – born 1884 in Georgia; married Florence Courson
- Laura M Gaskins – born June 15, 1887; died November 15, 1898
- James Henry Gaskins, – born February 18, 1890; married Hattie M. Roberson; died December 25, 1979
- John Bullock Gaskins – born July 9, 1892 at Weber, Berrien County, GA; served in WWI with US 1st Division; died December 3, 1954 at Miami, FL
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Well, the other day, I came across something called the Bubble Planner. The word "planner" always intrigues me, as well as the word "bubble" used with it. =) I read into it and thought it sounded like something I had to try.
Bill, from the Bubble Planner Company graciously sent me a Bubble Planner for Busy Women AND a grocery list.
Now this planner is super simple and easy to use. I thought it would be a little more complex, but it really is very easy! User Friendly! On the inside are pages for goal setting (of all kinds), projects, places to keep track of birthdays, and calendars. There are also the planning bubbles like shown here:
On each open page there are places to make phone calls, computer work, house work and running errands. And in the bubbles you can fill out what you need to do each day. Like mine for today~ calls I had to make were to a campground to change reservations, and to call my aunt. Computer work was to blog about the bubble planner! House work was to do laundry, to start the dehydrator, and to finish putting away things from my trip. Errands- I had nothing for today. And it is that easy! As you do them you could mark them off or whatever. Nothing hard to do, just a written reminder of the things you want to accomplish! I am loving mine so far!
And the grocery list, well, those are ALWAYS nice to have. This one even has reminders at the top, as well as a "don't forget your coupons" reminder! Like it!
One last thing. When I got the Bubble Planner in the mail, Bill, who I have been talking to, wrote a message hoping I liked the planner and after his signature wrote "Pr. 16:3". I instantly went to my Bible to look up Proverbs 16:3. Here is what it says:
Pro 16:3 "Ask the LORD to bless your plans, and you will be successful in carrying them out. "
How awesome! What a great company!
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Obama Announces Rooney as Ambassador to Ireland
By Al Kamen
Lady Luck naturally smiled on Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney on St. Patrick's Day, the day the White House chose to announce his long-expected nomination to be ambassador to Ireland. Rooney, a member of the Football Hall of Fame who led the Steelers to a record six national championships, is a lifelong Republican.
But he was so inspired by Barack Obama that he endorsed and stumped with the candidate, a crucial stamp of approval in a football-crazed and electorally critical swing state.
Rooney, who needs to be confirmed by the Senate for the job, has been long-active in Irish organizations. He co-founded the Ireland Funds, a nonprofit that raises money to support education and the arts in Ireland. In 1976, he established the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, which is awarded to young Irish writers.
Rooney recently told a Pittsburgh radio station he did not endorse or campaign for Obama "with the idea of getting anything." But "if he calls me," Rooney added, "obviously I'm going to say that I'll do anything I can for you."
Dublin sounds pretty good.
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Thats what I like about "Big Brother Obama" he all ways in front of the camera with a good news story.
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Posted by: VJMachiavelli1 | March 18, 2009 12:34 AM
I'm not Irish. But I am a Catholic, and I have marched in parades and drunk beer and have celebrated St Patrick's Day for many years. But this Washington shebang tops everything . . . . even Hollywood . . . . . green water flowing in the fountain, meeting with Irish politicos, shamrock luncheon, Paul Muldoon, Maggie McCarthy, the Shannon Rovers, revelry (booze), etc. What didn't they think of? I am really pleased, though, with the appointment of Dan Rooney. The Rooneys are a fine Irish Pittsburgh family.
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Posted by: rmkraus | March 17, 2009 4:02 PM
Usually I think these kinds of appointments are absurd, but this one makes more sense than most. Mr. Rooney has a history of supporting the Northern Ireland peace process and is very familiar with the issues.
Posted by: adriennevollmer | March 17, 2009 2:36 PM
I know these kind of appointments happen in every administration, but honestly, this is just silly.
Posted by: MikeL4 | March 17, 2009 1:36 PM
Within less than a year, Mr. Rooney has bucked his Republican Party and the Penna-popular Senator Clinton to help Senator Obama to the Presidency, won a wonderfully-exciting Super Bowl and got appointed Ambassador to Ireland on St. Patrick's Day. Congratulations! Well done all around.
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Kevin Grandia | December 3, 2009
By Kevin Grandia • Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 10:01
The name Nigel Lawson has been popping up a lot lately on climate change issues. Especially around the recent CRU stolen email controversy.
Our research team has completed a full background briefing on Mr. Lawson. You can check out the entire backgrounder here: Who is Nigel Lawson?
Here's some of the highlights:
Climate Change Expert?
According to a search of Google Scholar, Lawson has not published any work in the area of climate science.
Climate Contrarian Family
Climate skepticism runs deep in the Lawson family. His son Dominic Lawson is a journalist for the British newspaper The Independent. Dominic Lawson has used his columns to question the science behind climate change and criticize the IPCC. Ironically, Dominic Lawson is married to Rosa Monckton, the sister of the infamous climate denier Christopher Monckton.
The Global Warming Policy Foundation
In 2009, Nigel Lawson founded a climate change think tank, The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Although the organization presents itself as an independent and unbiased voice, it clearly has an agenda which is expressed loudly in its mission statement: "our main purpose is to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist, and all too often depressingly intolerant."
Dennis W. replied on Permalink
In related news, the
In related news, the soon-to-be-out-of-print Washington Times published a front page story titled "Global warming controversy reaches NASA climate data." The article described how a "U.S. researcher" from the Competitive Enterprise Institute has been unable to get NASA to release some data he wants. And what is this "researcher's" credentials?
He's a lawyer.
RickJames replied on Permalink
I'm not a Doctor, but if my
I'm not a Doctor, but if my Doctor tells me I have some kind of illness, I look it up, I research treatment options, get all the information I can and I make my own treatment decisions.
We're all the patient here. Don't hide stuff from us because we aren't Doctors.
Freiherr von Mo... replied on Permalink
I am a doctor, but I am not an open heart surgeon. Hence I leave my fingers from that.
CamMacKay replied on Permalink
Why not give it a shot? What have you got to lose, the world will be flooded in a couple of months anyways.
Mark Francis replied on Permalink
Denialists have for years
Denialists have for years claiming that they can't get data from researchers when the data is publicly available. In the few cases they can't get the data publicly, they bother the wrong people for it as some data can't be released with permission, and the people who get asked aren't the owners of the data. The denialists playing these games know this, of course, but publicly claim they are being rebuffed.
The biggest problem is that the is a well-funded movement out there to disseminate lies to confuse people. Since most of us can't tell good science from bad, the science ends up looking far less certain than it is. It's the "smoking doesn't cause cancer" industry-funded PR campaign all over again.
Dennis W. replied on Permalink
Then tell me what is the
Then tell me what is the lawyer's climate illness and why I should give a damn about his prescription?
RickJames replied on Permalink
You don't have to care about
You don't have to care about the lawyers opinion, but why not let him have one? Why not let him express his opinion even - and then you can question is qualifications if you want.
(sorry - I put this comment in the wrong spot - should have been down one)
Dennis W. replied on Permalink
Entitled to opinions, but not climate research
Like everyone, he's entitled to his opinions. But he possesses no skills, knowledge or training to conduct climate research and present anything from that information as "fact."
CamMacKay replied on Permalink
Alarmist Circular logic
Don't you love the Alarmist circular logic. Everyone is too stupid to understand global warming but us, so you should listen to us and only us on this issue. Their is a scientific consensus on global warming as we have excluded all other dissenting opinions.
And the PR Circle goes around and around.
Nigel lawson has credibility on the issue. Convince him of the alarmist rhetoric and you've probably convinced the other half of the globe to go along with the carbon crazy credit card scheme.
Freiherr von Mo... replied on Permalink
Now, apply this language to a publication in Nature or Science. Such a paper would not be published. Go figure, why.
climate criminal replied on Permalink
Denialist Distorted Logic - Truth = Lies
Fact: Data is available
Denialists Claim it's withheld
Fact: Techniques are published in scientific journals
Denialists claim it's hidden
Fact: Scientists publish science in peer-reviewed journals
Denialists Publish pseudo-science mostly in Energy & Environment
climate criminal replied on Permalink
The denialists would believe a talking dog!
Nigel Lawson has written several unremarkable books:
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming by Nigel Lawson
The Nigel Lawson Diet Book
The View from No.11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical
He has also co-authored other books.
It is reasonable to assume that without any demonstrable qualifications or fact-based knowledge concerning the climate, he should be ignored.
Lawson's book about the climate is excellent – if all you want is a book about a scientific subject that merely repeats extensively debunked denialists' bogus claims and avoids any actual science.
The denialists are so desperate, they'd believe a talking dog if it said climate science is a left-wing hoax!
Niall.Rice replied on Permalink
Bunged up
People in the higher echelons of society obviously have interests in the green revolution not messing up their cash cows.
This guy obviously knows little about the problem but has been sent in to dampen down the message as much as possible. Immigration


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Load Limits with Fuel Effects of a Premixed Diesel Combustion Mode
Premixed diesel combustion is intended to supplant conventional combustion in the light to mid load range. This paper demonstrates the operating load limits, limiting criteria, and load-based emissions behavior of a direct-injection, diesel-fueled, premixed combustion mode across a range of test fuels. Testing was conducted on a modern single-cylinder engine fueled with a range of ultra-low sulfur fuels with cetane number ranging from 42 to 53. Operating limits were defined on the basis of emissions, noise, and combustion stability. The emissions behavior and operating limits of the tested premixed combustion mode are independent of fuel cetane number. Combustion stability, along with CO and HC emissions levels, dictate the light load limit. The high load limit is solely dictated by equivalence ratio: high PM, CO, and HC emissions result as overall equivalence ratio approaches stoichiometric.


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From facade, you will see the white stepping among the brown sand. This stepping is design to your front door. But before it, you will pass small garden which is placed some small plants in pot. Then you will see two level home with glazed window and door and also wooden combination for it.
This home has living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, reading room and also courtyard and small balcony. Then, let's discuss about it, one by one. It living room, you will see white sofa which is beautified with red cushions. This seating is completed with glazed table. Under it, there is a red carpet. This living room is also completed with fireplace.Read more »


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Enjoy the world-famous traditional Cologne Carnival and several top events throughout the year.
20th -28th February 2020
The "fifth season of the year" as Carnival is called, begins on November 11th at 11:11 a.m. But the real "crazy days" do not start before the so-called Weiberfastnacht (Shrove Thursday), the Thursday before Rosenmontag (Carnival Monday). The "crazy days" of Carnival are celebrated with parties on the streets, in public squares and in pubs. Closing times for pubs and bars are suspended for the duration of the festival.
Traditionally the gathering of the colourful Corps troops can be seen on Saturday at the Neumarkt. On Carnival Sunday school groups and borough parades take place all over the city. But the highlight of the street carnival is Rose Monday with the march of "Cologne's Dreigestirn" or Triumvirate - the Prince, the Peasant and the Maiden - in the kilometre-long Rosenmontag procession going through the city. Carneval ends two days later on Ash Wednesday. (Photo: Fotografie Joachim Rieger / P. Verfürth)
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It's the time of the year for the biggest awards ceremony of the year and after the GRAMMY Awards 2012, the Oscars bring about a lot of excitement in movie stars and the people alike.
The Oscars Academy Awards are one of the biggest awards ceremony and the who's who of the movie industry makes it through the red carpet to watch the awards show and cheer for the winners.
This year the 84th Annual Academy awards will be held on Sunday, 26th February, 2012. The awards will be broadcast live on ABC at 7PM Eastern/4PM Pacific. This year several interesting movies have been selected for the Oscars and you can view all the Nominees for the Academy Awards at the official website.
Unlike the GRAMMY Awards, the Oscars won't be broadcast live online. However, the Red Carpet for Oscars can be watched online at http://oscar.go.com/red-carpet. There will be several other streams which will be covering the event live and you can also catch up the event by downloading the official Academy Awards app for iPhone and iPad devices.
You can watch the Red Carpet for the Oscar 2012 Academy Awards live on http://oscar.go.com/. Additionally, you can catch up on the Oscar 2011 84rd Academy Awards 2011 ceremony live online at http://www.livestream.com/academyawards or at http://www.livestream.com/aplive or at http://www.livestream.com/theoscars.
If you aren't able to watch the show online at these links, you can always visit Justin.tv and Ustream.tv and search for Oscars 2011 to find user uploaded streams online or check out websites like atdhe.tv among others.
We will update this post as soon as more live streaming options become available. In the meantime, you can watch the Academy Awards coverage in the stream embedded below.


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Armed forces finding a home with help from heylo housing
PUBLISHED: 00:00 01 July 2018
Residential property company heylo recently signed the Armed Forces Covenant, pledging its commitment to fair treatment and support to the Armed Forces community, including regulars, reserves, veterans and their families. The signing took place in a ceremony held at Wellington Barracks
heylo works in partnership with housebuilders, estate agents and local authorities to deliver part-buy-part-rent solutions across England and Wales. These partnerships, paired with the signing of the Covenant, now bring home ownership within reach for many in the Armed Forces Community,
heylo's CEO, Nicholas McAlpine-Lee said: "I am both honoured and delighted to sign the Armed Forces Covenant on behalf of heylo, as we believe that everyone in the UK should have the opportunity to access a stable home and the benefits of home ownership."
This increased access means the majority of serving personnel are able to use Forces Help to Buy as their deposit in conjunction with heylo's part-buy-part-rent solutions, to get on and move up the housing ladder.
Major General Ben Bathurst, General Officer Commanding London District, co-signed the Armed Forces Covenant with heylo housing. He said: "The support of organisations such as heylo housing is hugely important to all of us in the military. I believe strongly in taking steps to make it easier for Service Personnel to own their own homes, coupled with the Forces Help to Buy scheme, as the domestic stability it provides helps to recruit and to retain the talent that we need in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force."


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The most articulate and entertaining ESPN staffer goes at it with Skip Bayless.
I've never hid my pure enjoyment in of Lil' Wayne's ESPN the mag blogs and often wondered how long it would take for his profile to further expand at ESPN. His columns have been honest, goofy, and surprisingly insightful. He's also an unabashed sports fanatic and a bigger fanatic of ESPN. So today was a special, as Weezy finally got to fulfill a dream and go head-to-head with Skip Bayless on today's First Take.
Interestingly enough, Bayless has a huge hip-hop following. According to Bayless insiders (I assure you they do exist) he's buddies with Nelly, plus 50 Cent has also expressed interest in a spirited confrontation with Skip. But even though Skip may have some odd street cred, that still doesn't make up for this. Still? The Bayless rap video is less ridiculous than Dana Jacobson asking about his grill.
Lil' Wayne v. Bayless [MTV News Room]


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Welcome! My name is Taneya Koonce and I am your county host. On this site you will find many resources to assist with your family history research. We have vital records, burial records, and more. Of course, we always welcome contributions!
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Blount County, located in Eastern Tennessee, was formed in 1795, a year before Tennessee became a state. It was formed from part of Knox County which in turn was formed in 1791 from parts of Greene & Hawkins Counties. In 1870, part of Blount County was used to help form Loudon County. Blount County has the following neighbor counties, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Sevier, and Swain, NC.


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I'm not sure we could call "Nightbeasts" a "Shriek Of The Mutilated" remake but I don't think it would be unfair to call it a tribute. Sure the quality of the monsters has improved but the editing seems to not have gotten much better. Take a look at the trailer below and see for yourself.
Zach Galligan, AKA the guy from "Gremlins" stars as a father who's sets out on a weekend hunting trip with his son and runs into those darn sasquatches. Wes Sullivan, who worked for years as an animator for Disney wrote and directed "Nightbeasts".


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For the next two-plus weeks, I'll be in California, hearing all about the next six months in television. It's the annual press tour of the Television Critics Association, and it's always a combination of interesting discussions, weird little stories, and increasingly punchy critics.
You can see, for instance, all of last year's coverage here.
There's a lot to talk about this year — just today, we'll be hearing from both "Community" showrunner Dan Harmon (albeit about a different project on Adult Swim) and Keith Olbermann, plus the animals of Nat Geo, plus Rob Lowe as John F. Kennedy in an adaptation of a book by Bill O'Reilly, plus ESPN documentaries, plus a poolside event with TNT talent that presents the possibility of bumping into both Franklin AND Bash. There will be much talk over the next two weeks of television economics, the rise of Netflix, the end of "Breaking Bad" and much much (much much) more. Also, there will be parties — last night, there was one where I hugged a puppy. Because ... sure.
So if you hear people on Twitter talking about either "press tour" or "TCA," this is what they're talking about. And the hashtag we're all using this cycle is #tcas13 (which stands for TCA summer 2013), so if you get way too much TCA coverage in your Twitter feed and you have a Twitter client that allows it, you can mute that and it will help a lot.
Today's schedule: Nat Geo, Hallmark, ESPN, TV One, and Turner. And that's just the first day. Of 16. Entire days.
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i just started driving for ms. gold and she is very demanding. when she wants something, she will get it. i was taking her home when she blew my mind. she called me with the car phone and told me to look back. she had her legs spread, and she was rubbing her pussy. she told me i had to satisfy her when we got back. she wanted it right there in the drive way. her tits are so enormous. her pussy was so wet by the time we got back. i did everything she wanted and then some because she was so hot. i can only wait until i have to drive her around again.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — California home prices rose slightly in February from the previous month, while low inventories kept a lid on sales, a research firm said Thursday.
The median sales price was $355,000, up 0.6 percent from $353,000 in January and up 22.8 percent from $289,000 in February 2013, DataQuick said. It was the 24th straight annual price increase.
There were 25,680 new and existing houses and condominiums sold in the state during February, down 0.6 percent from the previous month and down 10.6 percent from the same period last year.
Sellers have been scarce, despite the big price increases. There was a 4.3-month supply of single-family homes for sale in the state in January, up from a 3.5-month supply a year earlier but still below what is considered a normal market, according to the latest figures from the California Association of Realtors.
The median sales price in the San Francisco Bay area was $540,000 in February, up 2.9 percent from $525,000 in January and up 33.3 percent from $405,000 a year earlier, DataQuick said. The median sales price in the nine-county region has risen from year-ago levels for the last 23 months.
There were 4,963 homes sold in the Bay area, up 5.7 percent from January but down 8.2 percent from the same period last year. It was the lowest February sales tally in six years.
"At some point, rising home prices will trigger a more significant increase in the number of homes on the market. It's just a question of when," said John Walsh, president of San Diego-based DataQuick.
Southern California's median sales price was $383,000 in February, up 0.8 percent from $380,000 in January and up 19.7 percent from $320,000 a year earlier, DataQuick reported Wednesday. It was the 23rd straight month of annual price increases in the six-county region.
Southern California also had the lowest February sales total in six years. There were 14,027 new and existing houses and condominiums sold in the region, down 3.1 percent from January and down 12 percent from a year earlier.
(Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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So when I asked you how your carpal tunnel syndrome is doing, there was no reason to drop your pants. Especially since the door to my office was open, as I hadn't expected you to do something like that. Neither did the rest of my staff, though you may have unintentionally helped their diet plan.
So kindly pull them up, put your inflatable donut cushion on the chair, and tell me how your carpal tunnel syndrome is doing.


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On my last trip to Bali, I visited this dreamy, colourful, insta-worthy place located at Nusa Ceningan, Le Pirate Beach Club.
When I first saw it on Instagram, I couldn't believe how pretty it was! And the best part is, it's as pretty as the pictures! ♥
If you'd prefer watching to reading, you can watch my Vlog here.
We wanted to stay there for two nights, but it was fully booked so we decided to make it a day trip instead. A day before our flight, we called Le Pirate to arrange our transportation from the airport to Le Pirate, and back to the airport again.
Upon arrival (around 8am), we stored our luggages here at the airport (cost IDR 50,000/day). Then, we met our driver at the designated place at 9am. Now off we go to Sanur beach to take a speedboat!
It took around 45mins, and we were greeted by this shell-less mermaid statue.
Here's the complete list of the boats. Ours was the bottom left (speedboat to Nusa Lembongan - Mushroom Bay).
You will pass through this colourful alley before reaching the pick-up point.
Sampai! We took the 11:30am boat.
Waiting, waiting...
Enjoying the beach view for a minute.
Yay! Our boat has arrived!
We must first took off our sandals... to keep the boat clean, I guess? They will give them back to you once you reach Nusa Lembongan, don't worry.
After a 30-minute boat ride, we arrived at Nusa Lembongan! Look at the clear water ♡
Then our guide got us a rental car to get to Nusa Ceningan. You can also rent it yourself there (either a car or motorbike).
The bridge was so cute, it would be a sin not to take a picture.
Picked up by Le Pirate staff on a motorbike at the end of the bridge.
If you can ride a motorbike, you might as well rent one at the boat drop-off point to explore the island.
Yesss! We finally arrived at this gorgeous place!! Aaand my camera ran out of battery. So, we headed straight to the restaurant to charge the battery and ordered ourselves some fried bananas and banana pancakes! Not tasty, I must say...
But they got beer, so it's all good :D
After my battery was fully charged, we went straight to shoot! We only got time until 3pm, so we must be quick! (3:30pm was the pick-up time)
The pool ♡
Uber cute parasol!!
The cliché pose lol.
Freaking love the colour combo here!!!
I wish I could take this beach chair home with me!
Some of you asked where did I buy this heart sunglasses. I bought it at one of the stores on Takeshita Street, Harajuku, Japan :)
Braided my hair to "survive" the flight, boat, and motorbike rides, lol. *I'm so thoughtful*
Here's the "Beach Boxes" where you can spend the night, SO CUTE I KNOW! And they only have 10 boxes in total, TEN! That's why you need to book in advance. The sooner you book, the bigger your chance of getting a room! Note that a minimum stay period of 2 nights is required.
Btw don't expect a spacious room here. This one is for 1-2 persons (IDR 700,000/night):
Yup, that's it! But it's equipped with air conditioning, so I guess it's comfortable enough.
↑ This is the Bunk Bed type (max 4 persons) - IDR 700,000/night
↑ Private outdoor bathroom with shower, wash basin and toilets (no hot water).
↓ Freshened up a bit with this piña colada from the cocktail pool bar.
Again, not so tasty, but fresh enough and insta-worthy, lol.
This dress ❤
Spending our last few minutes at The Lounge ↓
Changed outfit again! And I love these culottes like a lots!
Messy braids❤
Happy day is happy! ( ̄▽ ̄)ノ
Went back to the boat pick-up point on a motorbike again, and saying goodbye to this view ↓
Arrived at Sanur beach, and look at all the sandals ↓
Just don't wear your favourite sandals or shoes ok!
Overall, I love how beautiful, private and secluded Le Pirate is. Perfect for those who need to take a break from all the hustle and bustle. :)
To experience it more vividly, you can watch my Vlog here:
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For more info, visit their website: http://bit.ly/lepirateweb
Oh anyway, as I said earlier, we arranged a pick-up and drop-off from Le Pirate Beach Club including: airport pick-up, car ride to Sanur beach, speedboat ride to Nusa Lembongan (Mushroom Bay), car&motorbike ride to Le Pirate Beach Club then back to Mushroom Bay, speedboat ride back to Sanur beach, car ride back to the airport; all of them for IDR 1mil for 2 persons. It would be cheaper if you go there by yourself, of course. Good luck! And if you have any questions, just leave a comment down below :)


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"Jesus was a great moral teacher," Richard Dawkins said to The Guardian earlier this week. "Somebody as intelligent as Jesus would have been an atheist if he had known what we know today."
I love this kind of thing; I have a taste for the grotesque. Here is Jesus, a "moral teacher", the authority of whose entire teaching derived, from the beginning, from the fact that he didn't just believe in the existence of God the Father as a kind of add-on, compulsory at the time, but from the fact that he Himself and the Father were one: and Dawkins says that if Jesus had only known what we know today, he would have been an atheist. Of course, he is well aware of the "oxymoronic" nature of his statement; as he explained in an essaywritten in 2006, "In a society where the majority of theists are at least nominally Christian, the two words are treated as near synonyms. Bertrand Russell's famous advocacy of atheism was called Why I am not a Christian rather than, as it probably should have been, Why I am not a theist. All Christians are theists, it seems to go without saying." (He later points to the example of an atheist bishop, the former Anglican Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, to prove that it ain't necessarily so, though the preposterous Holloway describes himself as a "post-Christian", even as a "recovering Chistian").
All the same, one is entitled to ask, if this "intelligent" teacher would have been an atheist today, what would his moral teachings have actually been, and what authority would they have had in a non-religious world in which you can't just set up as a "moral teacher" and expect to be listened to? Dawkins says Jesus's teachings, in the context of their times, were radical, and certainly they were:
Of course Jesus was a theist, but that is the least interesting thing about him. He was a theist because, in his time, everybody was. Atheism was not an option, even for so radical a thinker as Jesus. What was interesting and remarkable about Jesus was not the obvious fact that he believed in the God of his Jewish religion, but that he rebelled against many aspects of Yahweh's vengeful nastiness. At least in the teachings that are attributed to him, he publicly advocated niceness and was one of the first to do so. To those steeped in the Sharia-like cruelties of Leviticus and Deuteronomy; to those brought up to fear the vindictive, Ayatollah-like God of Abraham and Isaac, a charismatic young preacher who advocated generous forgiveness must have seemed radical to the point of subversion. No wonder they nailed him.
"Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
It's nice to know that Professor Dawkins likes this "charismatic young preacher who advocated generous forgiveness", and especially, it seems, the teaching that we should love our enemies: in the run-up to the Pope's visit to the UK, he wasn't himself exactly running over with love for his enemies, the Catholics (as he undoubtedly conceived them as being), and especially not for the Holy Father; his entire campaign was full of the most virulent hatred for him. So, the modern atheist Jesus probably wouldn't have had any more effect on him that the "intelligent" theist of the first century. Or perhaps he thinks that an atheist Jesus would be just like him; a major disciple of Dawkinianity, perhaps.
Dawkins's mention of Bertrand Russell's book Why I Am Not a Christian brought back for me many memories: for until not long before I myself suddenly, in my early thirties, realised that all my life I had been utterly mistaken in my own firm belief that there was no God, this book had been central to my anti-religious formation. I had read it and re-read it, many times. I thought after some months of joyful and passionate belief that I had better test my new faith: so with great trepidation I re-read Russell's book. I need not have worried: this, as I supposed, unanswerable text now seemed to me utterly ludicrous, from start to finish. Perhaps its most ludicrous assumption was that common to all committed atheists: that reason and the discoveries of science have made belief in God impossible; as Dawkins puts it, ""Somebody as intelligent as Jesus would have been an atheist if he had known what we know today."
The point is, of course, that knowledge of God isn't (as they suppose) a human construct, put together from materials provided by the prevailing zeitgeist: it is far more often counter-intuitive, as often contradicting prevailing beliefs about the nature of the world as confirming them. The other misconception is about what exactly these ignorant God-believers actually did believe about their world. How often have you heard atheists complacently declare that Christians from former ages believed that the earth was flat? (The corollary is that since we now know the earth is round, belief in God isn't possible any more). Actually, Christians have always believed that the earth was a globe: St Augustine called it the "orbis terrarum"; and one of the mediaeval emblems of Christian kingship was, among the coronation regalia, the orb: a sphere surmounted by the cross, denoting the authority of God (mediated by the king) over all earthly things. Dawkins thinks that evolution disproved Christianity. Darwin, we know, didn't: and the idea that evolution and Christian belief are contradictory, as Dawkins thinks they are, is very clearly untrue; Pope Benedict has described this idea as "an absurdity":
"Because on one hand," he explained, "there is a great deal of scientific proof in favour of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and that enriches our knowledge of life and of being as such. But the doctrine of evolution does not answer everything and does not answer the great philosophical question: Where does everything come from? And how does everything take a path that ultimately leads to the person?
"It seems to me that it is very important that reason opens up even more, that it sees this information, but that it also sees that this information is not enough to explain all of reality. It is not enough."
And that's the point, Professor Dawkins. You are, thank God, just wrong about Him. Those who know God personally (and that's what we are talking about) know that he has not lied to them: he is truly there, in a way they could not have imagined before he revealed Himself to them. If what you believe about the world were true, it would be a bleak prospect for us all, as it so clearly is for you.
Quite simply, Professor Dawkins, "it is not enough". And one day, I hope and pray, you will know it. You will emerge from your atheism as so many have done before, to a meeting with Him. It happens all the time: may it be so for you.
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Technical Paper
Development of an Improved Cosmetic Corrosion Test for Finished Aluminum Autobody Panels
Since 2000, an Aluminum Cosmetic Corrosion task group within the SAE Automotive Corrosion and Protection (ACAP) Committee has existed. The task group has pursued the goal of establishing a standard test method for in-laboratory cosmetic corrosion evaluations of finished aluminum auto body panels. A cooperative program uniting OEM, supplier, and consultants has been created and has been supported in part by USAMP (AMD 309) and the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to this committee's formation, numerous laboratory corrosion test environments have been used to evaluate the performance of painted aluminum closure panels. However, correlations between these laboratory test results and in-service performance have not been established. Thus, the primary objective of this task group's project was to identify an accelerated laboratory test method that correlates well with in-service performance.


text: One of Toledo's hidden secrets, the Mango Tree serves fine steaks and seafood. Their menu is one that can't be contended with. This small, but quality restaurant off Reynolds road, just north of Airport Highway, has a classy atmosphere, is known for their Mango Chicken, Grilled Lamb Chops, and their flavorful Steak Montreal, marinated over-night in a special seasoning. Great for lunch and dinner, with early bird menu available.


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Professor Ralph Giffin
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Ralph Giffin has over twenty-five years of professional experience in executive leadership and management. He currently serves as Associate Provost at Stevens Institute of Technology and Distinguished Service Professor within the School of Systems and Enterprises. Mr. Giffin's responsibilities include operational leadership of the Institute and teaching graduate-level courses for the School of Systems and Enterprises, whose sponsors include IBM, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, L-3, Sandia National Labs, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, NASA, NSA, and FAA. Prior to joining Stevens in 2006, Mr. Giffin held a number of executive management positions at Lockheed Martin. His most recent position was Vice President for Operations at Lockheed Martin Simulations, Training & Support. He also served as the senior Lockheed Martin procurement executive responsible for the global source selection of all maintenance and support equipment for the Joint Strike Fighter Program. He successfully led a number of company initiatives including the expansion of lean manufacturing and six-sigma into the Lockheed Martin manufacturing and supplier base, the successful implementation of an Enterprise company IT system, and focused growth of a wholly-owned manufacturing business based in La Mesa, Mexico, where he served as the company's Sole Administrator. Mr. Giffin previously was responsible for Lockheed Martin's Underwater Business Unit's functional supportability organization with division-wide charter including supportability engineering and logistics planning. The predominate focus was on open systems, COTS-based programs including the Next Attack Submarine Program (C3I system integrator) and the Navy's Fixed Distributed System. The organization also supported a broad base of space, air, surface, and underwater programs. He successfully led an organizational re-engineering, enabling the transition from logistics engineering and support of traditional fully developed Mil-Spec products to supportability engineering and support of COTS-basedweapons systems. Mr. Giffin has authored and co-authored a number of publications addressing COTS supportability and issues related to the support of COTS intensive weapons systems. Mr. Giffin served six years in the United States Naval Submarine Service. He is a Graduate of Harvard Business School's M&D Presidents Class program and holds a B.S. from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
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By Simon Breedon, Examiner.com, Degree Jungle,
Web conferencing has enhanced the effectiveness of online education, as well as brick and mortar education tenfold. Students are utilizing web conferencing tools more frequently and on a more goal-driven basis. From sharing files and engaging in social debates, to holding live instructional events entirely online, web-conferencing as an educational tool is changing how schools and universities function. This trend can be seen taking place both inside the classroom and outside where students are not just socializing with fellow classmates, but engaging with mentors in the form of webinars and study groups. The following are some of the interesting ways in which students can use web conferencing both inside and outside of the classroom.
In the Classroom
Inside the classroom, in both college and on the high school level, the expectation for students to be technologically savvy is becoming more pressing. This requires students to show they can utilize tools that extend much further than Microsoft Excel, or the basic Power Point Presentation. Web conferencing is the perfect tool to satisfy this expectation. In addition to being a valuable resource for information by providing students with the ability to contact experts in a certain field, web conferencing can also be used as a digital presentation tool in the classroom for live interviews with experts. Before conferencing was applicable as an integral part of the classroom, the thought of having an author present a live reading of their critically acclaimed novel, or having an actual political leader speak at a small classroom event would have only been possible in the rarest of opportune occasions. Web conferencing makes this type of exchange more convenient and thus more possible.
Outside the Classroom
Outside the classroom, students have the power to engage their fellow classmates on a level that is unprecedented. They can interact with mentors and experts for coaching and counseling. In many cases, counseling or consultancy services that were available to students in the past were often overlooked or avoided due to their lack of privacy or convenience. Tutoring services, foreign language studies, and adolescent counseling are all services that were costly or time consuming, but video conferencing makes them cost effective and time efficient. The most important aspect of this innovative resource is that students now have the ability to reach out and get assistance they need from the best possible source. They are no longer limited to resources just within their immediate surroundings, or community. The possibilities for education are truly globalized through web conferencing.
Future trends
Now that web conferencing applications like Skype and Google Talk are extending their functionality to mobile devices, students will truly be able to conference on the go. The fact that numerous mobile devices are extending their use to faster 4G networks makes data streaming and sharing much more plausible as well. The best benefit of being able to engage a large group through a web conference by cell phone is the ability to share files conveniently and securely with an entire group within the span of few seconds while on a daily jog, or running other errands. The multi-functional nature of web conferencing on mobile devices allows for an entirely new realm of possibilities in education and business.


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Hotel Porto Santo
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Hotel Porto Santo Restaurant
Hotel Gaviota Porto Santo is located next to Baracoa Bay and close to the airport, in a small and private beach where, according to legends, Christopher Columbus planted the famous Cruz de Parra, considered the oldest religious object conserved from the Spanish presence in America.
Hotel has 60 rooms and its best feature is a large swimming pool with a deck and thatched-roof bar overlooking the bay, downtown Baracoa and cute private cove beach.
From the hotel, you can tour the mountains, admire La Farola viaduct or go on a trip in "cayucas" on the Toa River.
© 2009 Nigel Hunt
Activities program for kids
Air conditioning
Billiards / pool table
Cafe / snack bar
Car rental desk
Children's swimming pool
Daytime activities programme
Evening entertainment - cabarets
Games room
International cuisine
Internet by WiFi for your laptop
Laundry & Ironing Service
Mastercard & Visa (not USA bank issued) accepted
Medical services
Modern building
Motor scooter / moped rentals
Nightclub, disco or dance hall
Poolside snack bar
Reception staff speak Spanish, English, French, German, Italian
Safety - uniformed security personnel 24hrs
Shop(s) with basic supplies, souvenirs & gifts
Swimming pool
Taxis desk
Telephone - national & international calls
TV room/bar (international channels & videos)
Standard rooms are not very large but nicely decorated and have magnificent view of the bay or downtown Baracoa. Bathrooms at the hotel are quite small but fully functional. All rooms have a small balcony or private patio.
© 2009 Nigel Hunt
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Police: Suspect advertised intentions with haircut
Man suspected of robbery had 'get money' shaved in hair
A robbery suspect was arrested after police say he was identified by his haircut: The phrase "GET MONEY" shaved onto one side of his head.
Larry Shawn Taylor, 18, now has a room at King County Jail and a Sept. 13 arraignment, where he is expected to enter a plea.
At about 10:15 p.m. on Aug. 23, two young women were parked beneath a stoplight on the north side of the 3000 block of Northeast 137th Street. The driver was sending a text message.
Taylor allegedly walked by when the passenger's window was down.
"Taylor stepped up to the open window and pointed a pistol at (the victim)," Seattle Police Detective David Clement wrote in a probable cause document. "He said, 'Empty out your (expletive) wallet! Give me your (expletive) money!'
"The victim was very afraid, so she took $310 out of her purse and gave it to Taylor."
He then ran to a vehicle that had stopped and backed up, police said. The car drove away on 32nd Avenue Northeast.
Police say Taylor wasn't hard to identify.
The victim described him as a black man in his 20s, with a small build of 5-foot-5 or 5-foot-6, who had small ears that were possibly deformed or folded over. Victims said the suspect wore a red and black checkered zip-up jacket and blue jeans.
"He had 'MOB' shaved into one side of his hair and 'GET MONEY' on the other," Clement wrote. "He had 'GET' tattooed on his right hand and 'MONEY' on his left hand. He had flame designs on both forearms. He held the pistol with his right hand."
Clement sent out two e-mails to department personnel about the case. He noted the suspect hung out at Little Brook Park -- a notorious park known for criminal activity. Some police refer to it as Little Beirut, and neighbors have tried to deter criminals there, organizing potlucks and outdoor movie nights.
The day of the second e-mail, court documents Officer Sarah Mulloy said she stopped a suspect matching that description several times and told of another officer who had recently written him a ticket.
Another detective, Mel Britt, searched records using tattoo information as search criteria and found Taylor's name and date of birth.
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"Upon my contact with Taylor, I noticed that Taylor had writing shaved into his hair -- 'GET MONEY' on one side and I couldn't read the other side," Clement wrote. "I asked him where he got his hair done and he told me at the barbershop on Lake City Way."
The victim had told the detective the suspect might have gotten his hair styled at the barbershop in the 13700 block of Lake City Way Northeast.
"I noticed that Taylor's ears are deformed in a way -- the tops fold down," Clement wrote. "Taylor had 'GET' tattooed on the top of his right hand and 'MONEY' tattooed on the top of his left hand. He had flames on his left forearm."
The victim identified him as the person who robbed her at gunpoint, according to the probable cause document.
Taylor, who is from Oregon, has no known convictions, according to court documents. He's being held on $100,000 bail.


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By: Todd Spangler, Multichannel News
AT&T will increase rates for many U-verse video, data and voice packages effective Feb. 1, 2010, with TV subscribers facing monthly rate increases of up to 10%.
According to AT&T's Web site, rates for the U-verse U100 and U-family TV packages will increase by $5, from $49 to $54 per month. The U200, U300 and U400 tiers will each go up by $3, to $67, $82 and $112 per month respectively.
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In a statement AT&T said that the "modest price adjustments that we're making are far outweighed by the additional value we've added to U-verse TV in the last year alone." The telco cited the addition of 30 HD channels; enhancing whole-home DVR capabilities; and introducing other new features like U-verse TV Multiview.
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We Won't Give Up
National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel is angry at people who would treat our children as commodities in order to yield profits, attack educators and create conflict rather than actually work to improve public education for all our students. Watch and hear what he has to say.
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Yesterday, when political ideologues were running full page ads attacking teachers and calling kids garbage – I was in the small town of Emporia, Kansas helping to dedicate a memorial to educators who made the ultimate sacrifice for their students. The headlines in the last few days have been dominated by political attacks against public school educators, while scant attention was paid to a cherished child who lost his life to yet another gun attack in a school.
It's easy to get discouraged when the rhetoric of our opponents dominates the headlines and the airwaves.
But I, like you, don't look at the world through the pages of USA Today or the headlines in Politico. I see the world through the eyes of the students I have taught and the eyes of educators who you and I work with every day to fight for great public schools for every student.
We look through their eyes and see those attacks, those headlines and get angry.
Angry at a system that would vilify dedicated educators who get up every day with one focus – helping their students succeed.
Angry at a system that's narrowly focused on small silver-bullet solutions while blind to the larger problems of poverty, inequity and the growing gulf that separates students from the opportunity to succeed.
And Yes – I get angry at corporate interests that would rather see public schools as a billion-dollar enterprise and our children as commodities to be profited from rather than a public good and the driving force for excellence AND equity.
I have a message for those people who would seek to reduce children to a test score and teaching to a technological transaction.
You are mistaken if you think we will see your attacks and get discouraged, that we will read the headlines and give up.
You may put students in the name of your campaigns but that doesn't mean you really care about the millions of children in our public schools.
If you did truly care, you would look at the more than half of public-school children who live in poverty and wage your crusades against the inequity in our economy.
If you truly cared, you would look at the deteriorating conditions in schools across this country and aim your fire at politicians who have starved our schools of the resources to succeed and then punished them for their failures.
If you truly cared, then you would see the scourge of violence that has once again taken away a young life and run your full page ads demanding action to end the plague of gun violence in our schools and communities.
Yesterday those opponents of public education were celebrating their political wins and driving their version of the story on education hoping that in declaring victory we - educators, our association - would concede defeat.
But what they don't realize is that I am a teacher. I, like the millions of educators across this country, won't give up on our kids.
I will continue to fight for them, and for the educators across this country who dedicate themselves to fulfilling the promise of another generation of students.
This association won't give up until we have brought together everyone who believes in the promise of great public schools for all and we've declared victory for our kids.
I, like you, won't give up because we are educators.
We are NEA.
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In our 5 à 7 Friday Cocktails series, Susan Semenak shakes, stirs, pours and shares a new cocktail recipe every week all summer long.
MONTREAL - Here's a way to enjoy those long summer days.
In the south of Italy, they linger on the piazza or at the beach over pitchers filled with ice cold wine and sliced peaches. It's a sweet way to make a perfect evening last and last and last.
White Wine with Peaches
Serves 4 to 6
1 bottle white wine, chilled
4 ripe (but not too soft) peaches, sliced
2 ounces peach schnapps, optional.
In a large glass pitcher, combine white wine, sliced peaches and peach schnapps. Let stand in refrigerator for at least half an hour to allow flavours to marry.
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She carries on, flying blind.
1:00 a.m. The friendly night becomes a graph of fear:
a jagged line between where-I-am and not-quite-sure."
In May of 1932, Amelia Earhart boarded her red Lockheed Vega plane and set off on a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Northern Ireland. Her flight wasn't without challenges and despite inclement weather, a broken altimeter and other mechanical problems, she endeavored on to become the first woman to fly alone non-stop across the Atlantic. The talented Robert Burleigh takes readers along on this incredible journey by describing the flight in dramatic verses. His emotion-filled version of the harrowing, forever famous fifteen hour trip is an exceptional biographical work about Amelia Earhart, the bold and courageous aviatrix and her amazing trip.
Robert Burleigh on his website describes his book writing goals stating, "I like the book to convey the feeling of immediacy." Truly, while reading Night Flight it does seem as though you are right there, accompanying Earhart every step of the way. Wendell Minor's illustrations add to the drama and suspense, skillfully showing the white-knuckle, heart pounding moments flying over a churning ocean in darkness and finally the beauty and relief after a successful flight. Minor carefully researched the specifics of Earhart's plane before making the illustrations so that he could provide historically accurate paintings. The endpapers show a schematic of the plane and a map illustrating Earhart's flight path across the ocean. An afterward and other notes and quotes provide background information pertaining to Amelia Earhart's life.
Powerful, brilliant, fascinating, beautiful -- both my children sat quietly listening and hung onto every word as we read the story and took in the pictures together. What an incredible way to experience a moment of history, a remarkable night flight, and learn about the woman who at one time declared, "Everyone has his own Atlantics to fly. Whatever you want very much to do, against the opposition of tradition, neighborhood opinion, and so-called common sense -- that is an Atlantic."
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic by Robert Burleigh, paintings by Wendell Minor. Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
(February 2011); ISBN 9781416967330; 40 pages
Book Source: Copy from public library
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Wendell Minor - Illustrator Website
We stopped at Michaels this weekend, and I noticed some of the Creatology wooden kits were on sale. My son enjoys painting and gluing the wooden models, and I knew right away he'd love a rubber band powered biplane. He painted the plane parts yesterday, and I helped him glue the plane together. When twisted and released, the rubber band powers the spinning propeller. You can't beat the value of wooden kits - this one was a cheap, exciting and educational project that only cost me 75 cents! While the biplane isn't the same as the Earhart's Vega, it still is a nice tie-in project and the plane has a spinning propeller just like the one portrayed on the cover of Night Flight.
I nominated Night Flight in the 2011 Cybils Non-Fiction Picture Books category because I think the book is award worthy. Amy at Hope is the Word is hosting an Armchair Cybils challenge. This is my first blog contribution for the link-up challenge. Look for more review posts in the next few months as my family reads several of the nominated Cybils books. Also, head on over to Amy's blog if you'd like to join the challenge.


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In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces ... Dante's "Inferno." Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust ... before the world is irrevocably altered.
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In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with "keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; spiking tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing membership in secret societies; the ire of Cardinals in Rome; eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it; a flood of historical thrillers; and a major motion picture franchise."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Muslim convert from New York was sentenced on Friday to 11-1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to threatening the writers of the satirical "South Park" television show for their depiction of the Prophet Mohammad and to other criminal charges.
Jesse Curtis Morton, 33, who is also known as Younus Abdullah Muhammed, was put on three years of probation after he completes his prison term. The sentence was handed down in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Morton, who ran a website that encouraged Muslims to engage in violence against enemies of Islam, pleaded guilty in February to making threatening communications, using the Internet to put others in fear and using his position as leader of the Revolution Muslim organization's Internet sites to conspire to commit murder.
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I hold no truck with those who incite passion and terror, and those who beat the memory of the dead prophet. The Muslim convert changed his father's faith for another. Ok, fine for one to get rid of unwanted baggage. Instead of feeling relieved that he came into a man's estate, he saddled himself with another. What is the worth of religion in the way practiced these days by Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Yemen, Pakistan,Kabul and in Nigeria? Hatred and pure nonsense whereas the prophet stood for something nobler. If Islam is a religion of peace what he did was wrong and senseless. He followed some idiots who take the name of Prophet and took the wrong road to urge violence. Only look at the needless slaughter of children and women! Just because terrorists want to create terror among ordinary folks or media attention they don't mind killing their brethren as well. On that account itself they have repudiated their prophet's words. So the fellow who threatened South Park writers merely was a tool to further the cause of terrorists.
Why should comedians harp on Mohammed? He is dead and there is no merit in poking fun at one who for great many is a revered figure. I am unashamedly a follower of Christ and yet I can admire him for the noble purpose he made his life's work. Go make fun of the living, for a change. If you ridicule the hollow sounding political nit- wits who are 'ready to fix the economy or immigration problem' by some magic formula the jabs may have some effect. Prophet Mohammed, let him rest. He whether the west likes it not was a great prophet. If you study his life without prejudice and objectively you shall find he wanted to purify both Christian and Jewish religion of his time. He stood for something noble just as George Washington stood for something in terms of politics. Just as with all religion Prophet Mohammed was ill- served by his followers who were all jockeying for control, call it self interest. Now what benefit you can get by ridiculing him? It is just like beating a dog or a donkey after the beast has served you all its life. Even if you were to do this now you will be taken by the hand of law for cruelty to animals.
The new converts may not know for a believer despises such converts for their inability to be true to their belief.
From history you can see how these blind believers who dared not think themselves brought upon them the backwardness they merited. Now they can only bury in the Word and blindly fool around like puppets for some mad Ayatollahs and clerics. They lost Jerusalem just because of their inability to co-exist with their neighbors or go with the trends that made the homeless Jews to find a homeland in the 20th Century.